Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759086AbZGGUhm (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:37:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758363AbZGGUh2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:37:28 -0400 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:56070 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758851AbZGGUh0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:37:26 -0400 Message-ID: <4A53B202.9080505@davidnewall.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:07:22 +0930 From: David Newall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090608) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Changli Gao CC: Denys Vlasenko , Albert ARIBAUD , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Amerigo Wang , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: extend pipe() to support NULL argument. References: <20090703015554.GB5880@cr0.nay.redhat.com> <412e6f7f0907030259m5556ee2fobbb58d377bce4d17@mail.gmail.com> <4A4DDD54.9030206@free.fr> <200907070643.56394.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <412e6f7f0907070045o6a17fb10x557108ffde0da11@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <412e6f7f0907070045o6a17fb10x557108ffde0da11@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 421 Lines: 14 Changli Gao wrote: > mkfifo(name); > open(name, O_RDWR); > unlink(name); > > Is it a trick? This does beg the question, why is it necessary to "extend" pipe() in this way? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/